Famous Quotes & Sayings

Benazir Bhutto

Freedom is not an end. Freedom is a beginning.

August Wilson

You get to the point where your demons, which are terrifying, get smaller and smaller and you get bigger and bigger.

Benjamin Franklin

What good shall I do this day?

Aung San Suu Kyi

We're nowhere near democracy. I've been released, that's all.

Anthony Trollope

Though they were Liberals they were not democrats; nor yet infidels.

There is a power to the street that's part of the democratic process when all else has failed,

Tom Rath

We've seen the enemy, and he is us. We have to get back to the basics. Let's talk about small government and reduced spending, and don't let the Democrats take those issues.

John Hume

The real duty now, if we want to have a totally peaceful and stable country, is for all true democrats to implement the will of the people.

Brad Henry

It is a paradox that far too few Americans participate in the wonderful ritual of democracy that we call Election Day.

Jane Byrne

I am a Democrat. I have been one all of my life.

Jamie Dimon

A democracy is a compromise by its nature. It's not a dictatorship.

Ken Mehlman

I will always remember and we must all remember that Democrats are our political rivals, not our enemies, and they deserve our respect.

Dennis Chavez

Either we are all free, or we fail; democracy must belong to all of us.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

For poets (bear the word) Half-poets even, are still whole democrats.

Charles Edison

Our democracy poses problems and these problems must and shall be solved by courageous leadership.

Alan Parker

I've always been completely autocratic. I've never learned to be diplomatic or democratic.

Alan Bullock

Democracy is not about making speeches. It is about making committees work.

Alan Blinder

Public opinion is presumptively an input to policy formation in a democracy because politicians respond to it or at least are believed to respond [to it].

Al Smith

All the ills of democracy can be cured by more democracy.

David McCullough

You can't be a full participant in our democracy if you don't know our history.

David Korten

We can have democracy and a prosperous, just, and sustainable human future. Or we can have corporate rule. We cannot have both.

David Korten

Capitalism has defeated communism. It is now well on its way to defeating democracy.

David S. Goyer

Mysticism and the supernatural are embedded in the show - it's called 'Da Vinci's Demons' for a reason, and it's not just metaphorical.

C. Wright Mills

Here's to the day when the complete works of Leon Trotsky are published and widely distributed in the Soviet Union. On that day the USSR will have achieved democracy!

Caroline Kennedy

I've been a Democrat all my life.

Chen Shui-bian

I have great confidence in Taiwan's democracy.

Chaka Fattah

Democracy derailed is democracy denied.

Bob Brown

For comprehensive Earth action, an all-of-the-Earth representative democracy is required. That is, a global parliament.

Bob Beauprez

The Democrats are obsessing about raising tax rates, while the GOP talks about closing loopholes.

Nicolas Maduro

My message to France and Europe is that we will make sure Venezuela won't witness the rise of another Pinochet. And we will do it the democratic way.

Gunter Grass

Prose, poetry, and drawings stand side by side in a very democratic way in my work.

Robert Shaw

There is no point in pushing toward municipal or general elections in Nepal. First, there needs to be a democratic process.

Donna Brazile

There is no place in our democracy for faulty voting equipment, long lines at the polls, untrained poll workers and any forms of chads,